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(b) Illicit Discharge. Any discharge to a Municipal Separate Storm Sewer
or the Waters of the State that is not composed entirely of storm water,
unless exempted below. Any such Illicit Discharge is a public nuisance.

(c) Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System: A conveyance or system of
conveyances including roads with drainage systems, municipal streets,
catch basins, curbs, gutters, piped storm drains, pumping facilities,
ditches, retention or detention basins, reservoirs, constructed channels or
storm drains, which meets the following criteria:

1. Owned or operated by a municipality.
2. Designed or used for collecting or conveying storm water.
3. Which is not a combined sewer conveying both sanitary or storm

water.
4. Which is not part of a publicly owned wastewater treatment

works which provides secondary or more stringent treatment.

(d) Person: Any owner, operator, individual, association, organization,
partnership, firm, corporation, municipality, interstate agency, state
agency, federal agency or other entity recognized by law and acting as
either the owner or as the owner's agent.

(e) Storm Water: Storm water runoff, snow or ice melt runoff, and surface
runoff and drainage.

(f) WPDES: Wisconsin pollutant discharge elimination system.

(g) Waters of the State: Those portions of Lake Michigan and Lake
Superior within the boundaries of Wisconsin, all lakes, bays, rivers,
streams, springs, ponds, wells, impounding reservoirs, marshes, water
courses, drainage systems and other surface water or groundwater,
natural or artificial, public or private within the state or under its
jurisdiction, except those waters which are entirely confined and retained
completely upon the property of a person.

(2) DISCHARGES PROHIBITED. No person shall cause an Illicit Discharge to a
Municipal Separate Storm Sewer or the Waters of the State.

(3) CONNECTIONS PROHIBITED. The construction, use, maintenance or
continued existence of an Illicit Connection to the Municipal Separate Storm
Sewer is prohibited. This prohibition expressly includes, without limitation, an
Illicit Connection made prior to the adoption of this ordinance, regardless of

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